Rich Murray: Clearly, the simple evidence so far made available shows that the input electric heater power is enough to raise the water flow to boiling. The Rossi reactor is a scam. I congratulate Joshua Cude on his outstanding clarity and attention to significant details.
It remains to be demonstrated. I have not reviewed all of the various analyses that have been presented, but I wasn't terribly impressed by the January demonstration, for lots of reasons. Lots of details circulated that may later have been shown to be false.
There are some difficult factors here. The first and perhaps the most important is that Rossi has no natural reason to put on totally convincing demonstrations, and possible some financial incentive to allow some to think that this is totally bogus. We really don't know why Rossi even scheduled the demos; the rumor is that it was a personal favor, and certainly it wasn't to establish this as science. It simply wasn't done that way.
I've concluded, as have a lot of others, that this is unlikely to be a scam. However, that's far from considering it proven to be, not only real, but also commercially viable. We simply have not seen enough.
Nowhere near enough.
